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W. DEET Z. CAR COUPLING.

Patented Aug. 8, 1882.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

WILLIAM DEETZ, OF SPAFFORD, WISQONSIN.

CAR-COUPLING.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 262,538, dated August 8, 1882.

Application filed April 12, 1882.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM Dream, a citizep ot' the United States, residing at Spafford, in the county of La Fayette and State of WVisconsiu, have invented certain new and useful ImprovementsinOar-Couplings; andldo hereby declare the following to be afull, clear, and exact description -of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

My invention relates to improvements in the class of carcouplings in which the pin is supported upon some movable device thatwill be thrown or forced backward by the link when coming in contact therewith,and fall down on top of the rear end of link and hold it in a horizontal position for couplingthe cars, while permitting the locking-pin to fall by its own gravity; and the invention consists in novel means for carrying outthe above-described object, while assisting to hold the link down in place, all as will be hereinafter fully described, and set forth in the claim hereto anneved.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 represents a longitudinal vertical section, showing the position ofthelocking-pins when raised and lowered, and also the difierent positions when the pin has dropped down; Fig. 2, a transverse section through one of the drawheads with the pin in a raised position.

In the drawings, A represents two drawheads having the usual bell-mouthedopenings for the reception of the link B, the usual locking-pin, and I) b the openings through which the locking-pins pass.

(3 represents curved or segmental guide-slots (No model.)

for the reception of the journals d d of the heavy roller D, adapted to sustain the lockingpin in position for the reception of the link 0, as shown in Figs. 1 and 2. As the draw-heads come together the roller will be knocked from under the pin and thrown rearwardly and upwardly, so as to rest on top of thclink, tending to hold it down in a horizontal position when it is desired to couple the cars, while the pin will drop down in position and engage the link in the usual manner.

The above-described construction, while he.- ing simple, is efl'ective in operation.

I am aware of patents numbered 183,353 v and 224,754, and I do not wish to be understood as claiming broadly anything shown,'described, or claimed in said patents.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

In a car-coupler, the combination, with the locking-pin B, connecting-link 0, and roller D, having journals d d, of the recessed drawhead having the curved or segmental slots 00 through the sides thereof for the reception of thejournals of said roller D, whereby in coupling the cars the roller will be thrown backward and upward, so as to fall down directly on top of said link, as and for the purpose herein shown and described.

In testimony whereofl affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

WILLIAM DEETZ.

Witnesses:

JOHN COLLINS, M. W. RICHARDSON. 

